These are my links for May 27th 2009 through May 28th 2009:
- A List Apart: Articles: Burnout – "Web professionals are often expected to be “always on”—always working, absorbing information, and honing new skills. Unless our work and personal lives are carefully balanced, however, the physical and mental effects of an "always on" life can be debilitating."
- Republican Riot » The Hoax that Continues a War – Devastating essay from Julia Gorin on the Hoax that led to NATOs illegal bombing of Serbia.
- In the industrial economy success was self-limiting; – …it obeyed the law of decreasing returns. In the network economy, success is self-reinforcing; it obeys the law of increasing returns.
- What makes so academic laboratories such dangerous places to work? – By Beryl Lieff Benderly – Slate Magazine – How come accidents and injuries occur hundreds of times more frequently in academic labs than in industrial ones?
- Cocker spaniel world’s meanest dog (ABC News in Science) – A floppy-eared, innocent-looking breed may be one of the world's most aggressive dogs, according to a new study.
- Minority Rights Group International : Press releases : Kosovo’s independence leaves vacuum in international protection for minorities – Post-independence Kosovo lacks effective international protection for minorities, which is worsening the situation for smaller minorities and forcing some to leave the country for good, an international human rights organisation warns in a new report.
- Why men should not sit down to urinate – The Naked Scientists 2009.05.17 – ..they should pee in the sink!
- The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body – health – 13 May 2009 – New Scientist – The placebo effect has an evil twin – the nocebo effect – which can make you think yourself ill, or even dead
- Washington Times – BOOKS: Freedom to offend – Truth matters, but the best way to get at truth is to allow an open contest of ideas. That's why we need freedom of speech…
- Was truth the biggest casualty in the case of Vincent and his severed ear? – News, Art – The Independent – It wasn't self-mutilation – and Gauguin was to blame, say German art historians
- 9/11 conspiracy theories: The truth is out there…just not on the internet – Times Online – The democratic nature of the net has created a mass of undifferentiated data, accurate, speculative, and absurd. Consider conspiracy theories…
- Remembering the Roman People by T. P. Wiseman reviewed by Mary Beard TLS – Putting the ideology – and the people – back into our understanding of Roman political life
- Features: ‘Fear masquerading as tolerance’ by Christopher Caldwell | Prospect Magazine May 2009 issue 158 – Some European politicians now suggest that immigrants ought to be expected to respect the values and customs of their new homelands. A bit late in the day…
